{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-livestock-regulations-1990/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-livestock-regulations-1990/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1445",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Livestock Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-livestock-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“the Act” means the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968;\n“electro-immobilisation”, in relation to any livestock, means the passing of an electric current through the body of an animal for the purpose of immobilising it;\n“housed”, in relation to any livestock, means kept in a building;\n“veterinary surgeon” means a person registered in the register of veterinary surgeons or in the supplementary veterinary register;\n“welfare code” means a code containing recommendations with respect to the welfare of livestock for the time being situated on agricultural land prepared and issued by the Ministers under section 3 of the Act, and references in these Regulations to a welfare code are references to that code as it has effect for the time being.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1445/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:15:28.615063+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}